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  1. Re:Will it make BMWs cheaper? on Robots Join Final Assembly Line At US Auto Plant · · Score: 1

    Why would bowel movements be expensive? Do you foresee some robot toilet future with the only options being a high price or taking a crap in the bushes?

  2. Re:Coming Soon on Robots Join Final Assembly Line At US Auto Plant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eventually we will have to have a huge class of people either allowed to starve to death or cared for by the state. Some people are not ever going to be capable of more than manual repetitive labor.

    I think many nations will move towards extremely limited work weeks and high levels of social welfare. I think the USA will more likely go with more salaried employees who work long hours and a huge class of folks barely surviving. The salaried workers will be told by the media that these folks unable to find jobs are why they must pay high taxes and work long hours. The owners will profit even more.

    At some point every non-creative job can be done by a machine. Many folks will be employed making hand made items as those will be a novelty, or cooking amazing new foods and the like. Those will be the only workers left.

  3. Re:Coming Soon on Robots Join Final Assembly Line At US Auto Plant · · Score: 1

    Well clearly they should have picked their parents better and been born on third base like me.

  4. Re:Reminds me of Food Trucks on The Sharing Economy Fights Back Against Regulators · · Score: 1

    Abortion was far more common in the past. Even forced abortions via abortifacients. Even the puritans were okay with abortion until the quickening, which when the child first moved. Partial birth abortion was not a major argument in the last 10 years. It was a fake argument meant to fight all abortion. Third trimester abortions are illegal unless the life of the mother is at stake. Abortions are way down too. In fact that only places where teen pregnancy are high are in locations where sex education is non-existent.

    The commentary on it was this man was doing horrible and illegal things. It is a simple fact that as we become more wealthy and more secure we are allowed to be more moral.

  5. Re:Google Play on Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October · · Score: 1

    I think part of the market at least is that they can easily be turned into generic Android tablets. Until the N7 2012 was shipped there were relatively few inexpensive but good tablets.

  6. Re:Talking from experience on Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October · · Score: 1

    Cyanogenmod runs on the Nook Color pretty well. The only issues are due to it having a very low amount of RAM. I am not sure why it is wrong to sell software to handle more document types, office software often costs money.

  7. Re:Blue screen of Nook on Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October · · Score: 1

    Unlikely, Microsoft do not allow OEMs to customize WindowsPhone like they can with Android. A new nook will likely just have a newer android build.

  8. Re:Color e-reader? on Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October · · Score: 1

    Sadly no, the refresh rates are just too slow.
    Other than a feeling that this is better to look at, what are the advantages? I look at LCD and AMOLED screens all day, they seem fine to me.

  9. Re:Look over here, look over here! on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 2

    Believing in it? Something you can measure has not need to be believed it exists. You can claim the source is not humans, but you cannot claim it does not exist. You will note neither your "believer or non-believer" deny it exists.

    We can measure thing and we know that moving the growing zones north will be bad for our economy.

  10. Re:Fraud on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    We call that salary work. I am on a salary and I do work 12 hours or more if the need arises. I have done 20 hour days when it was needed. I am not evaluated on how much time I spend at work.

  11. Re:Fraud on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, what right does the company have to get my fingerprints? This is exactly what unions should fight, since clearly you will not. Slavery is user in much of the world, does not make it right? Drug tests are common as well for employment and they are just as much an infringement on a workers human rights.

  12. Re:Guess that's why Valve is so behind Linux on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    The infrastructure is actually harming the gaming field. It is just bright shiney DRM. I would rather just get the game from a normal website than deal with steam.

  13. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    The book was the about that time in history.

    Yeah, why bother reading and critiquing when you can just fight straw men. Russia was a hellhole before the communists and after. Even today it has many of the same problems, they seem to love strongmen and dictators. Mind you they were communists, not socialists. Not sure why you mix those together. Must be easier for your little though experiment.

    What do socialists have to offer? Look at Germany. Look at the nordic countries.

  14. Re:A few things need to happen first on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    Note the smiley emoticon. Also I use VIM all day long. Different strokes for different folks.

  15. Re:Reminds me of Food Trucks on The Sharing Economy Fights Back Against Regulators · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why bother improving yourself!

    Crime is down, people are more moral than ever and you want to say the whole world is evil. Sounds like your religion is clouding your judgement.

  16. Re:Reminds me of Food Trucks on The Sharing Economy Fights Back Against Regulators · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The food trucks park in public, they have to adhere to normal regulations and are a far better method for many downtown areas. Why use up valuable real estate for a restaurant people will only be in for a few hours a day? Ride sharing seems fine to me, cars have to be inspected for a reason.

    If you really believe that about most people you are a sad husk of a man.

  17. Re:Hard Shell on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    I am not at all patient. My wife has her own phone so I don't worry about her dropping or scratching mine. I just keep it in my left pocket and never put anything else in there.

  18. Re:Hard Shell on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1

    Actually I think most people are more coordinated than me. I just think bulky cases destroy the point of a thin device. Being careful is easy.

  19. Re:Guess that's why Valve is so behind Linux on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 2

    Ah, I stopped checking about a month ago.
    Valve should release something new, it has been ages since anything interesting came out from them.

  20. Re:Hard Shell on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You could just be more careful.
    I have had lots of smartphones, no iphones though, and I have never used a case or a screen protector. They are all still unscratched.

  21. Re:Solar cells are already cheap enough on Plasmonic Nanostructures Could Prove a Boon To Solar Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    You can store vast amounts of gas. It might not be cheap to do so however. In Europe they have massive "Gas Ball" storage tanks.

  22. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    I disagree. The people can decide by voting and if need be moving to do what they will with tax money. We tried it your way once upon a time, we had a poorly educated society and rampant corruption. Limiting government to that degree is simply not feasible. Read "The Jungle" to learn more.

    I was not aware the USA had a government controlled news-source. Other than the private companies choosing to be government controlled in exchange for access to those government figures.

  23. Re:Sounds like a fast response... on Security Company Says NASDAQ Waited Two Weeks To Fix XSS Flaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is such a thing as too much process, this would be an example.

    Besides all those steps should take a couple days tops.

  24. Re:Guess that's why Valve is so behind Linux on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 0

    Nor L4D2, nor HL2 save for beta.
    I appreciate the effort but my spending would be higher if there was something I did not already own. I bet that is a big part of the less than 1% and the dropping number of linux steam users. They should have held off announcing until they had some actual games.

  25. Re:A few things need to happen first on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. That's happening
    2. That seems like a patent nightmare
    3. Man up, use VIM or Emacs :) I imagine linux will get visual studio when MS ports it and not a second before. Lots of non-game devs seem to do fine without visual studio.